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> As for Taylor Swift,she represents everything that is wrong with the music industry.She is a mass market product,not an artist. Not a fair characterization,
by gr2020 12y ago
> As for Taylor Swift,she represents everything that is wrong with the music industry.She is a mass market product,not an artist.
Not a fair characterization, IMHO. She writes her own songs, and manages her own career. She might have mass market appeal, but I don't see how you can argue she's not a legitimate artist.
- soganess 12y agoBecause he believes what she is producing does not meet the threshold requirement of being deemed as art? Just because she is referred to as an artist by an industry attempting to profit from her production does not defacto her as such. Perhaps Taylor is just a shrewd business person who has a natural understanding of what has strong social appeal. What if she openly admit that was her intent? Would you still call her an artist? I would not, and I imagine a great many others wouldn't either. There is a lot to being an artist and this automatic labeling is misleading and perhaps, if you are extra paranoid, nefarious in intent.